Hamburg Left Party candidate Sarah Rambatz received a torrent of criticism after she made a post on Facebook asking for recommendations for “anti-German” films specifying that she wanted to see ones in which Germans were being killed.

BERLIN (AP) — A lawmaker in Berlin’s new state government has resigned his position over his past with communist East Germany’s Stasi secret police, saying he no longer had the support of the left-wing governing coalition.

Political parties of the right and the left are having a hard time finding office space in Eastern Germany as landlords refuse to rent to them because of extremist vandalism and attacks. The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the

A junior politician in the Left party who claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic, neo-Nazi knife attack faces up to three years in jail for lying. 19-year-old Julian Kinzel alleged in January that right wing extremists slashed